Obama General Election
Campaign Organization, North Dakotarevised
April 14, 2009disclaimer

Starting in July 2008 the campaign built
up a substantial organization in North Dakota. However, on Sept.
22, 2008 the Associated Press reported that the campaign was shutting
its 11 offices, some of them just opened a couple of weeks earlier, and
moving the 50 or so staff mostly to the battleground
states of Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Amy Brundage, Obama
spokeswoman, provided this statement:

"The Obama campaign generated
unprecedented enthusiasm
and excitement in North
Dakota, a state that hasn't voted for a Democrat for president since 1964. We always knew it would
be an uphill battle, but because
people across the country in red states and blue states are hungry for change, we built a grassroots movement we
are proud of and an
infrastructure that will help candidates up and down the ballot.
With our nation facing serious
challenges today, voters across this country can't afford four more years of the same
disastrous economic policies
that John McCain is offering, and
Barack Obama will change our country and put our economy back on track."

Although the campaign shut down, a grassroots group emerged, including
people such as Chad Nodland and Dina Baird, and they carried on the
work.

Obama for America

State
Director

Anita
Decker

(announced July 9, 2008)
Downstate director
in Obama's Senate office from Feb.-June 2008 and from Oct.
2006-March 2007. In between she served as Illinois downstate
director on Obama for America. Downstate field
director on Rod
Blagojevich's campaign for governor in 2002.Graduate of University of
Arizona, 2000. Native of
Kenilworth, IL. (Note: "downstate" is the 92 counties outside of Chicago)

New
Media Lead

Becky Furgason

Campaign for Change

General
Election Director

Mitch
Wallace

During
the primaries, Wallace served as caucus director on the Feb. 5 campaign
in Kansas.

Field Director

Tim
Fraser

Fraser started as a regional field director
(Portsmouth) on Obama's NH primary campaign; he also served as Obama's Arkansas state
director and Rhode Island field
director. In 2006 he
worked as regional field director on the Rhode
Island Coordinated Campaign (major focus on the Sheldon Whitehouse U.S. Senate
race). Prior to that, he
worked for Sen. Tom Daschle. Native of Boston.

(started in May 2008)
Legislative correspondent for Congressman Earl Pomeroy in his
Washington D.C.
office. Worked at the North Dakota Dem-NPL State Party from
2004-06, including doing direct mail for candidates and fund raising.

(elected chair on Feb. 5, 2005) Chairman of the 2002 and 2004 reelection campaigns for
Congressman Earl Pomeroy. Appointed by President Bill Clinton to be executive
director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Served nearly four years as deputy chief of staff to Vice
President Al Gore. Served for 13 years in senior
management positions in the U.S. Senate, including staff director for
the
Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works and chief of staff
for the late Sen. Quentin Burdick (D-ND). B.A. in political science and B.S. in secondary
education and political science.from MSU Moorhead, 1973. Resident of Valley City, ND.

Executive
Director

Jamie Selzler

(started in Feb. 2007) Ran for the State House of Representatives
from District 43 in 2006.Operations
manager at Amazon.com for almost seven years.
Graduate of the University of North Dakota. From
Minot. Former Republican.

Field Director

Geoff
Greenwood

Staff assistant to House Minority Leader
Merle Boucher in the 2007 legislative session. A Coordinated
Campaign field staffer in Grand Forks in the 2006 general election.